Re: Question about Megaraid2 driver in upcoming U6 Release (RHEL 3) !

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 12:22 +0200, Franz Skale wrote:
> Dear sirs,
> i have found a bug report that claims that the megaraid2 driver is
> broken in Taroon5 kernel 2.4.21-32.0.1. That's true because all my
> servers with LSI Logic Megaraid 320-1 (Rev. 01) are not able to boot
> with that kernel and the megaraid2 driver. So i found a post of a redhat
> kernel maintainer that the updated version (2.10.10.1) is beeing merged
> in the 2.4.21-34 kernel. Now i downloaded the beta kernel from linville
> (http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel3/rpms/kernel-smp-2.4.21-34.EL.jwltest.46.i686.rpm) but the mew driver is not in the built. It's the old v.2.10.8RH1 driver which is not working.
> I tried it and the error still occurs.
> So i have 2 questions:
> 1.) When will be a kernel available with the new megaraid2 driver
> (2.10.10.1) and is it merged in taroon 6 ? When will it be available ?
> 
> 2.) I need a quick solution to provide a working driver for the recent
> kernel 2.4.21-32.0.1 without loosing support ? What can i do to make a
> module that works for the mentioned kernel.

You should log a support request and ask for a hotfix kernel to fix your
bug.  They might just provide you with the U6 beta kernel (which you can
already download from RHN).

However, I just extracted megaraid2.o from the U6 beta kernel RPM and it
says v2.10.8.2-RH1.

/Brian/

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